If a site gets hacked, am I at any sort of advantage by having a complicated password, or does it not really matter at that point?
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some shitty websites will store your password in plain text. but any good/legit website won’t. so if you use the same password in all websites, then yes it doesn’t matter how good your password is if the plain text website gets hacked. good/legit websites store the password’s hash, which is your password after running it through a bunch of math (ie encryption). since most websites use common encryption methods, then the hackers can reverse engineer what your password is by guessing the encryption method and seeing if they can match the hash. the more common a password is, the more likely they are able to match the hash.
so yes, it’s best to use a combination of a strong password and also not reusing your passwords.
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